{"id":2897,"date":"2012-03-28T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2012-03-28T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:57:09","slug":"constance-vogel-adamkiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2012\/03\/constance-vogel-adamkiewicz\/","title":{"rendered":"Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talking To My Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cool, isn’t it?<\/em><\/p>\n

says the technician smiling<\/p>\n

as if she had painted your image<\/p>\n

on the monitor.<\/p>\n

Who can account for her taste, dear heart?<\/p>\n

You are a tangled package bound<\/p>\n

with rivers of string,<\/p>\n

your tricuspid valve a slit<\/p>\n

in torn wrapping,<\/p>\n

your thump-thump<\/em> a secret<\/p>\n

trying to escape from its chamber.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How shallow the breaths<\/p>\n

that fluttered against your rib cage.<\/p>\n

I thought you would collapse<\/p>\n

like a red balloon,<\/p>\n

shreds\u00a0clinging to a telephone wire.<\/p>\n

All it would take is a gust of wind<\/p>\n

to blow you away, old friend.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now the stress test is over,<\/p>\n

you are pronounced whole again.<\/p>\n

How about a walk in the woods, maybe a jog,<\/p>\n

a lo-fat yogurt or blueberries?<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A graduate of Marquette University and Northeastern Illinois University, Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz taught high school English and Creative Writing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago. She has published over one hundred fifty poems in literary journals. She is the author of a poetry collection, Caged Birds, <\/em>and chapbooks, The Mulberry <\/em>and When the Sun Burns Out. <\/em>Most recently her work has appeared in After Hours<\/em> and is forthcoming <\/em>in Snowy Egret.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Heart #1 \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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